Geeqie broken after last system update (geeqie not updated)

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Geeqie no longer works after the last update in a gnome desktop enviroment. Geeqie itself was not updated but probably a dependency.

  • Geeqie will start from terminal without the -r parameter and it will be usable just fine.
  • Geeqie will start when opening an image from “files” (nautilus) but will freeze immediately and can only be force closed.
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It appears we will have to wait for glib2.67 for this to be fixed, as can be found via the ARCH bug system leading to a bug with fixes in the gnome world.

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Give qimgv a go while you wait…

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HHHHmmmm…

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https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/-/issues/2323

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Yeah I got an error after posting one of thes, but it got posted anyway. Now there a two… on different locations however. Sorry…

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As a temporary work around until GLIB is updated, you could modify /usr/share/appplications/geeqie.desktop and remove the -r option in de command line on line 54. You do loose some functionality when opening geeqie while it already open…